1999 Worldcon Site Selection

Site Selection for the 1999 Worldcon was conducted by L.A.con III, the 1996 Worldcon. The bidders were Australia in 1999 and Worldcon Zagreb in 1999. Australia in 1999 won with a substantial majority on the first ballot and went on to run Aussiecon 3.

The results:

Bidder	Mail-In	Thurs	Fri	Sat	Total
Australia in 1999	260	62	152	334	808
Worldcon Zagreb in 1999	27	13	34	84	158
Write-in: Alcatraz in '99	0	2	6	11	19
Write-in: Hawaii in 1999	0	0	0	1	1
Write-in: Holland	0	0	0	1	1
Write-in: Las Vegas in 99	2	0	0	0	2
Write-in: Louisville	0	0	0	1	1
Write-in: Minneapolis in 73	0	1	0	1	2
Write-in: Reykjavik, Iceland	1	0	0	0	1
Write-in: Rottnest in 99	0	0	2	1	3
None of the Above	11	3	6	13	33
Total with Preference	301	81	200	447	1029
Needed to Win					515
No Preference	18	1	3	13	35
Total Valid Ballots	319	82	203	460	1064
Invalid/Spoiled Ballots					32

Unusually for a hoax bid, Rottnest Island submitted a bid filing at L.A.con III and would thus have been eligible to have been elected if it had only picked up another 806 votes.

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Site Selection

2000

1999

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